Susan D. Collins Department of Political Science University of Notre Dame 217 O Shaughnessy Hall Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 (574) 631-3182 EDUCATION Boston College Ph.D. in Political Science, December 1994 University of Alberta Master of Arts in Political Science, August 1987 Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, June 1984 Chestnut Hill, MA Edmonton, Canada ACADEMIC POSITIONS University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science Associate Professor Fall 2013-Present Book Review Editor, Review of Politics 2016-Present Notre Dame, IN University of Houston Houston, TX Department of Political Science Ross M. Lence Distinguished Teaching Chair Joint Appointment with The Honors College Full Professor 2013 Associate Professor Fall 2006-2013 Founding Director of Phronesis: A Program in Politics & Ethics Assistant Professor Fall 2000-2006 Liberty Fund Fellow August 1998-June 2000 Indianapolis, IN Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Carbondale, IL Department of Political Science Assistant Professor August 1995 August 1999 (on leave 1998-99) Instructor, January - May 1995 Boston University Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy September - December 1994 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Award Boston, MA 1
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH Books Aristotle s Nicomachean Ethics. Translated, with Interpretive Essay, Notes, and Glossary. With Robert C. Bartlett. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. (Paperback ed. April 2012). Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. (Paperback ed. April 2009). Empire and the Ends of Politics: Plato s Menexenus and Pericles Funeral Oration. Translations, with Notes and Interpretive Essay. With Devin Stauffer. Newbury, MA: R. Pullins (Focus Philosophical Library), 1999. Edited Volume Action and Contemplation: Studies in the Moral and Political Thought of Aristotle. Co-editor with Robert C. Bartlett, and contributor. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. Journal Articles Moral Virtue and the Limits of the Political Community in Aristotle s Nicomachean Ethics. American Journal of Political Science. 48 (January 2004): 47-61. The Challenge of Plato s Menexenus. With Devin Stauffer. Review of Politics. 61 (January 1999): 85-115. Book Chapters Xenophon s Regime of the Lacedaimonians. With Catherine Kuiper. Translation. In Xenophon s Shorter Writings. Ed. Gregory McBrayer. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Forthcoming. Reading Xenophon s Regime of the Lacedaimonians. Interpretive Essay. In Xenophon s Shorter Writings. Ed. Gregory McBrayer. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Forthcoming. Aristotle s Political Science, Common Sense, and the Socratic Tradition in The City and Man. In Companion to Leo Strauss Studies of Classical Political Thought. Ed. Timothy Burns. Leuven: Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. Aristotle and Aristotelianism in Norms of Liberty. In Reading Rasmussen and Den Uyl: Critical Essays on Norms of Liberty. Ed. Aeon Skoble. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008. Justice and the Dilemma of Moral Virtue in Aristotle s Nicomachean Ethics. In Aristotle and Modern Politics: The Persistence of Political Philosophy. Ed. Aristide Tessitore. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2002. The Moral Virtues in Aristotle s Nicomachean Ethics. In Action and Contemplation: Studies in the Moral and Political Thought of Aristotle. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. Pericles Funeral Oration In Liberty, Equality and Modern Constitutionalism: From Socrates and Pericles to Thomas Jefferson, ed. George Anastaplo. Newbury, MA: R Pullins, 1999. 2
Democracy in America: The Laws and the American Republic. In American Government, Politics, and Law: Unity in Diversity. ed., Michael Esler, Barbara Brown, and Thomas McAffee. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 1999. (Revised version in UH Department Textbook.) Review Essays and Encyclopedia Articles Aristotle and Herodotus. Forthcoming. Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Herodotus. Ed. Christopher Baron. Aristotle. 2014. Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought. Eds. Michael Gibbons, William E. Connolly, Diana Coole, Elizabeth Ellis. Wiley-Blackwell. Aristotle s Pedagogy. 2003. Polis: The Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought. 20 (October): 132-141. Translating the Philosopher. 2003. Claremont Review of Books. 3 (Summer): 19-21. The Problem of Law in Aristotle s Politics: A Response to Quentin Taylor. 2002. Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. 29 (Spring): 261-264. Book Reviews Review of Politics (Summer 2013). Review of Eugene Garver. 2011. Aristotle s Politics : Living Well and Living Together. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Claremont Review of Books (Summer 2009). Review of Ronna Burger. 2008. Aristotle s Dialogue with Socrates: On the Nicomachean Ethics : Chicago, IL. University of Chicago Press. Polis: The Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought 24 (Autumn 2007) Review of Brendan Nagle. 2006. The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle s Polis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Perspectives on Politics (December 2005). Review of Jill Frank. 2005. A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work of Politics. Chicago, IL. University of Chicago Press. Claremont Review of Books (Spring 2005). Review of Philip Fisher. 2002. The Vehement Passions. Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press. Journal of Politics 65 (May 2003). Review of Thomas W. Smith. 2001. Revaluing Ethics: Aristotle s Dialectical Pedagogy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Presidential Studies Quarterly 31 (September 2001). Review of Ethan M. Fishman. 2000. The Prudential Presidency: An Aristotelian Approach to Presidential Leadership. Westport, CT: Praeger. American Political Science Review. 92 (September 1998). Review of J. Peter Euben. 1997. Corrupting Youth: Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political Theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Interviews Translating Aristotle in Expositions: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 5 (2), 2011. UH Author Transports Aristotle into Modern Age in Houston Chronicle, Sunday, July 17, 2011. 3
Research in Progress and Under Review Constituting the Ancient City: The Political Regime and Classical Sparta (Book Manuscript in Progress) In Ancient thought, the politeia or regime is the foundational principle of the political association: it determines not only the distribution of political offices but also the practices and education that form a common way of life for citizens. This book explores the principle of the regime as it is most fully articulated by Aristotle, as well as its most famous instantiation in Sparta. A study of the ancient regime is naturally tied an investigation of Sparta since it is the city that both ancient and modern thinkers alike identify as having legislated a way of life that wholly identified human happiness with civic activity and devotion to the common good. Sparta and the Problem of War in Aristotle s Political Philosophy (In progress) An examination of the critique of Sparta by Aristotle, with a view to understanding the significance of Sparta in his thought. The Primacy of Justice and the Problem of the Politeia in Aristotle s Political Science (In Progress) An analysis of the principle and problem of the regime (politeia) in Aristotle s political thought. Academic Conferences and Talks Political Science National/Regional Meetings (last 5 years) Discussant, Plato s Democratic Pedagogy APSA, Philadelphia, PA. September 2016. Paper, Political Moderation and Xenophon s Critique of Sparta, MPSA, Chicago, IL. April 2016. Chair & Discussant, Political Virtue and Ambition in Ancient Political Philosophy, Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL. April 2015. Paper, Aristotle s Political Science and the Problem of the Regime, American Political Science Association Meeting. Washington, DC. August 2014. Discussant, Reconsidering the Ancients, Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting. Madison, WI. Oct 16-18, 2014. Discussant, Fundamentals and Origins of Ancient Political Theory. Midwest Political Science Association Meeting. Chicago, IL. April 2014. Chair, Conflicts within Ancient Thinkers Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL. April 2014. Paper, Civic Freedom and Reverence for Law: The Legacy of Ancient Sparta. Northeast Political Science Association Meeting. Boston, MA. November 2012. Paper, Xenophon s Regime of the Lacedaimonians. American Political Science Association Meeting. Seattle, WA. September 2011. Paper, The Spartans and the Ancient Regime. American Political Science Association Meeting. Washington, DC. September 2010. Discussant, Classical Rationalism Before Socrates. American Political Science Association Meeting. Washington, DC. September 2010. 4
Invited Talks (last 5 years) The Primacy of Justice and the Problem of the Politeia in Aristotle s Political Science, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. November 2016. War and Political Wisdom in Xenophon s Sparta, Hillsdale College, February 2016. Seminar on Aristotle s Nicomachean Ethics, Hilldale College, February 2016. Sparta and the Problem of War in Ancient Political Philosophy. Political Theory Institute. American University. Washington, DC. November 11. 2015. Sparta and the Problem of War in Ancient Political Philosophy. Carl Friedrich Von Siemens Foundation. Munich, Germany. November 20, 2015. The Right Questions. Hard Facts. Tough Choices: Public Policy, Social Science, and Political Judgment. Inaugural Gelwick Lecture. Hobby Center for Public Policy. University of Houston. April, 2015. E Pluribus Unum: Citizens, Friends, & Free Thinkers In the Ancient City. Holy Cross College, February 9, 2015. Commentator, Aristotle on the Character Virtues of Natural Slaves (Kristen Inglis). Workshop on Workers, Slaves, and the Disenfranchised in Aristotle, Co-sponsored by ND Philosophy Department and ND Workshop on Ancient Philosophy. May 2-4, 2014. Civic Freedom and Reverence for Law: The Legacy of Ancient Sparta. Emory University, March 19, 2014. E Pluribus Unum: Citizens, Friends, & Free Thinkers In the Ancient City. University of Dallas, March 22, 2013. E Pluribus Unum: Citizens, Friends, & Free Thinkers In the Ancient City. University of Notre Dame, January 13, 2013. Civic Freedom and Reverence for Law: The Legacy of Ancient Sparta. University of Notre Dame, March 22, 2012. Aristotle s Political Science and the Problem of the Regime. University of Notre Dame, March 23, 2012. Aristotle s Political Science and the Problem of the Regime. Baylor University, January 20, 2012. Friendship in a Good Life. Thoreau Unitarian Universalist Church. Fort Bend, TX. October 16, 2011. Other Academic Conferences (last 5 years) Co-Discussion Leader, Liberty and Equality, Fund for American Studies. Washington, DC, Feb 2016. Discussion Leader, Liberty and Equality, Washington, DC, Feb 7-9, 2016. Participant, Walker Percy on Alienation, Liberty, and the Modern World, New Orleans, LF. Dec. 3-6, 2015. Chair, Plenary Session V. Transcending Orthodoxies: Reexamining Academic Freedom in Religiously Affiliated Universities. University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, IN Oct. 29-Nov. 1, 2015. Participant, Liberty and Responsibility in the Age of Nuclear Weapons, West Sulphur Springs, Oct. 30- Nov. 2, 2014. Participant, James Q. Wilson on Human Nature, Liberty, and Choice, Pasadena, CA. Feb. 13-16, 2014. 5
Discussion Leader, Essaying Liberty in Hume s History of Elizabeth I, Mountain Sky, MT. May 27-30, 2013. Participant, Liberty and Self-Command in Smith and Kant, Chicago, IL. April 25-28, 2013. Participant, Classical Liberalism in Contemporary Political Philosophy, La Jolla, CA. January 20-23, 2011. Participant, John Locke and Algernon Sidney on Liberty and Free Government, Portland, ME. July 15-18, 2010. Interdisciplinary Conference Development Representative sample of over thirty interdisciplinary conferences developed as Liberty Fund Fellow with scholars from across North America and Europe Liberty in the Thought of Hegel. Director: Noel O Sullivan, University of Hull. Tunbridge Wells, UK. July 6-9, 2000. The Darwinian Challenge to the Doctrine of Natural Rights. Director: James Ceasar, University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA. March 16-19, 2000. Beethoven s Fidelio and Liberty. Director: John Lachs, Vanderbilt University. Chicago, IL. Nov. 11-14, 1999. TEACHING AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT The Ross M. Lence Distinguished Teaching Chair University of Houston Provost Core Teaching Excellence Award 2004-2005 Founding Director of Phronesis: A Program in Politics and Ethics Undergraduate Courses Freedom & Empire in Classical Greece (ND) Introduction to Political Theory (ND) PPE Colloquium (ND) Human Situation-Antiquity (UH Honors) Human Situation-Modernity (UH Honors) Ancient/Medieval Political Phil. (UH) Introduction to Political Theory (UH) Modern Modes and Disorders (UH) Sparta and the Ancient Regime (UH) Graduate Courses Aristotle s Constitutionalism (ND) Thucydides (ND) Graduate Proseminar (ND) Ancient/Medieval Pol. Phil. (UH) Democratic Thought (UH) Philosophy of Social Science (SIU) Proseminar in Political Theory (SIU) Seminar on Aristotle and Kant (SIU) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE University of Notre Dame Department Ad hoc Committee, Academic Honesty Fall 2017 Diversity & Mission Committee, 2016-17 Graduate Admissions Committee. Spring 2016 Ad Hoc Committee, Response to the Dean Regarding Core Curriculum Review. Spring 2015. First Year Ph.D. Advisor 2015/16: Justin Brophy 2016/17: Abigail Staysa Political Theory Field Chair, Fall 2014 Chair, Ad Hoc Committee of Associate Professors on the CAP, Fall 2013 College 6
Book Review Editor, Review of Politics 2016-Present University Library Committee, 2016-19 Catholic Mission Focus Group of the Core Curriculum Review Committee, 2014-2015. NDIAS Political Theory/Political Philosophy Applicant Review Committee, Fall 2015. Faculty Advisory Committee, Notre Centre for Ethics and Culture, 2015-Present. University of Houston Founding Director of Phronesis: A Program in Politics and Ethics, 2008-2013. Faculty Mentor, UH Center for Teaching Excellence, 2010-13 Committee Member, UH Honors College Dean Search, 2008-2009 Committee Member, UH QEP Discovery Curriculum Task Force, 2008-2009 Honors College Committee Chair, Honors Bylaws Committee 2009-2010 (complete revision of College Bylaws) Committee Chair, Ross M. Lence Master Teacher Residency Program 2008-2012 Committee Member, Personnel Committee 2010-11 Committee Member, Center for Creative Work Steering Committee 2009-2010 Chair, Honors Subcommittee in Joint Search with Philosophy 2007-2008 Chair, Joint Searches with Political Science 2006-2007 Invited Speaker, Panel on Martin Luther King (AAHSA), April 2007 Faculty and Postdoc Recruitment Committees 2002-2005 Chair, The XXV Anniversary Celebration of the Human Situation, Feb. 2002 Funding Initiative The Great Conversation 2001-2002; 2004-2012 High School Recruitment Banquets & Open Houses, Fall and Spring 2000-2012 Annual Retreat for First Year Students, August 2000-2012 College of Liberal Arts and Social Science The Civitas Project for the Interdisciplinary Study of Political Society and Civic Life Committee member for College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences 2005 CW Moores Fellowship Department Executive Committee (2006-08, 2009-13), Undergraduate Committee (2000-01, Chair 2008-09, 2012-13), Graduate Committee (2003-04, 2005-08), Recruitment Committee (2006-07), Department Planning Committee (2005-2006), Institutional Effectiveness Committee (2006-07), Speakers Committee (2000, 2001, 2003) Committee chair Krystafer Redden, Honors Thesis 2013 (SURF student 2010) Catrina Kim, Honors Thesis 2013 (SURF student 2011) Andrew Sapp Hamilton, Honors Thesis 2011 (SURF student 2011) Faisal Baluch, Masters Thesis 2007 Stefan Brooks, Ph.D. Dissertation 2006 Elizabeth Rodrigues, Honors Thesis 2005 Committee member for 5 Ph.D. Dissertations, 7 Ph.D. exams, 9 Honors Theses, 4 Masters Theses Reviewer for American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Review of Politics, Journal of Politics, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Political Thought, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Hackett Publishing Division Chair for Foundations of Political Theory, Midwest Political Science Conference 2006 7
Editorial Boards, Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy and Political Science Reviewer FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS Earhart Foundation Research Fellowship 2015 The Honors College Arete Award for Outstanding Service 2013 Ross M. Lence Distinguished Teaching Chair 2012 Elected to Phi Kappa Phi 2008 University of Houston Provost Core Teaching Excellence Award 2004-05 Earhart Foundation Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 2005 John M. Olin Junior Faculty Research Fellowship 2002-03 Earhart Foundation, Research Fellowship Grant, Summer 1997 Special Research Award, Office of Research Development at SIU 1996-98 Women s Studies/University Women s Juried Competition Award at SIU 1996 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship 1994-95 Dissertation Nominated for American Political Science Assn s Political Theory Prize 1994 Bradley Foundation Doctoral Fellowship 1992-93 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowships 1987-91 LANGUAGES Classical Greek & French 8